Challenge Launch

We utilized six future methods of care coordination to brainstorm technical solutions, that improve the quality of life, for caregivers, of those with dementia, aging at home. This was an ambitious topic to dig in to. However, we had some great speakers to setup the challenge before we got to work.

We built upon the Institute for the Future’s research on how technology will be used to coordinate across six domains of technical paradigms.

April 11 began with Chris Jones kicked things off by setting up the challenge.

eHealth Technology Challenge Setup

Next up, Jennifer Anderson, Executive Director for NCHICA introduced four speakers offering perspective to set up the challenge:

We then moved quickly into open pitching. Any attendee had the floor for 1 minute or less to present an idea. This process Generated 21 Ideas:

We then crowdsourced the voting process but equipping hackers with post-it notes to give note-votes to the best ideas.

Crowdsourced voting for ideas

Through this process we narrowed down submissions to the most popular five. Idea originators were then given another 2 minutes to expand on their original pitch. After the second pitch the idea owners became team captains and spread out among the room recruiting team members.

Sponsor Information

About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading provider of management consulting, technology, and engineering services to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 22,000 people, and had revenue of $5.48 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2014. In 2014, Booz Allen celebrated its 100th anniversary year. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

About Carol Woods

Situated on 120 wooded acres in Chapel Hill, Carol Woods is an accredited not-for-profit continuing care retirement community. It is an inclusive community that promotes an active lifestyle supported by the area’s educational, cultural and medical resources. A commitment to well-being and preventative care enables the 485 residents to pursue activities that support a sense of individual fulfillment and purpose.

Carol Woods was founded in 1979 by a group of local residents wanting to retire to Chapel Hill. It is governed by a local, all-volunteer board of directors entrusted with ultimate fiduciary responsibility. For further information, visit http://www.carolwoods.org/.

About Duke MMCi

Duke University’s Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi) program prepares graduates to work at the intersection of business, technology and health care. The multi-discipline curriculum integrates business and clinical informatics principles equipping students to address the challenges of cost and quality in health care. The program is designed for working professionals with classes that meet every other weekend. Join the discussion with clinicians, technologist, researchers, business, and policy professionals in this dynamic program. Applications being accepted for August start. For more information, visit: http://dukemmci.org/

About Himformatics
Himformatics harnesses IT and business expertise to help clients deliver healthcare in a way that makes a difference. From strategy to implementation, our select team of consultants specializes in getting the most value from IT to improve clinical processes and financial performance, and ensure regulatory compliance. Our expertise spans a range of comprehensive and specialized services for healthcare organizations big and small. We draw on our decades of experience to earn a place as a trusted adviser to your business, and we thrive on delivering exceptional service and results. For further information, visit http://himformatics.com/.

About NCHICA

The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to assisting NCHICA members in accelerating the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system through the effective use of information technology, informatics and analytics. Members include leading organizations in healthcare, research and information technology. For more information, visit www.nchica.org.

About Quintiles
Quintiles (NYSE: Q), a Fortune 500 company, is the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services. With a network of more than 32,000 employees conducting business in approximately 100 countries, we helped develop or commercialize all of 2013’s top-100 best-selling drugs on the market. Quintiles applies the breadth and depth of our service offerings along with extensive therapeutic, scientific and analytics expertise to help our customers navigate an increasingly complex healthcare environment as they seek to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of better healthcare outcomes. To learn more about Quintiles, please visit www.quintiles.com.

About Validic

Validic is the healthcare industry’s leading cloud-based, digital health platform for convenient and quick access to patient data from in-home clinical devices, wearables and patient healthcare applications. By connecting its growing base of customers — that includes providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers, wellness companies and health IT vendors — to the continuously expanding list of digital health technologies, Validic enables healthcare companies to better coordinate care across their communities, improve their patient engagement strategies and more efficiently manage their patient populations. Validic’s innovative, scalable and FDA Class I MDDS technology delivers actionable, standardized and HIPAA-compliant consumer health data from the best in-class mobile health devices and applications. Validic was recently recognized by Gartner and received Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices and Best Value in Healthcare Information Interoperability award. Validic’s leading global mobile health ecosystem reaches over 100 million lives and continues to grow daily. To learn more about Validic, follow Validic on Twitter at @validic or visit www.validic.com.

We are planning a fast paced problem solving challenge where the primary focus is teamwork and creation of new ideas. Before we set you loose though, we want to inform and inspire you based on the existing platform of aging and technology. In this spirit, the planning committee is hard at work securing a panel of experts to present the current challenges caregivers face in NC. We are also recruiting speakers who will dazzle and amaze you with technology that exists today that improves quality of life for the caregiver.

If you have a recommendation for a panelist in the field of aging and technology, please send them our way! Stay tuned to this section of the website for updates on speakers and panelists.

NCHICA is excited to invite hackers from across the industry and university spectrum. Many of you will be bound by non-compete clauses and intellectual property rules from existing contracts. We expect all participants will register as individuals and honor the privacy contracts they have in place. That being said, all the intellectual property created at the event will belong to the team that develops it together. It will be up to the team to decide how to move forward with monetizing the concepts developed at the event.

Presume the value of others. Everyone’s ideas, skills, and contributions have value.

Don’t assume everyone has the same context, and encourage questions.

Find a way for people to be productive with their skills (technical and not) and energy. Use language such as “yes/and”, not “no/but.”

Encourage members and participants to listen as much as they speak.

Strive to build tools that are open and free technology for public use. Activities that aim to foster public use, not private gain, are prioritized.

Prioritize access for and input from those who are traditionally excluded from the civic process.

Work to ensure that the community is well-represented in the planning, design, and implementation of civic tech. This includes encouraging participation from women, minorities, and traditionally marginalized groups.

Actively involve community groups and those with subject matter expertise in the decision-making process.

Ensure that the relationships and conversations between community members, the local government staff and community partners remain respectful, participatory, and productive.

Provide an environment where people are free from discrimination or harassment.

NCHICA reserves the right to ask anyone in violation of these policies not to participate in the eHealth Transformation Challenge

Their staple menu item is the Porchetta roast, a pork loin, wrapped in pork belly stuffed with herbs and spices and shaved into a delicious sandwich experience unlike any other. They also offer homemade sausages, pork burgers, vegetarian options, and sides. Is your mouth watering yet?

THE “FAT TUCKER”

The eHealth Transformation Challenge is a Multidisciplinary Hackathon that brings together students and industry leaders around a specific public health challenge. The 2015 event will focus problem-solvers around the issues caregivers face when coordinating healthcare and community services for those with dementia.

WHAT MAKES THE

eHealth Transformation Challenge

DIFFERENT?

The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) will bring together hospital CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, programmers, healthcare providers, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and students to work in teams over a two day period. Our neutral positioning in the industry with diverse membership and Board representation enable us to bring multiple stakeholders together for one purpose: developing solutions for caregivers in NC.

We anticipate several innovative solutions to emerge during the final pitch sessions. We are excited to provide a venue for emerging leaders to learn about existing challenges and develop a passion for providing solutions for the aging community.

Food trucks, photo-booths, interviews and arcade machines are just a few of the surprises we have planned to make this event different, fast-paced and fun.

WHY SPONSOR?

The eHealth Transformation Challenge is a great event to connect your company with some of the top computer science stars emerging from the North Carolina University System. We are anticipating up to 200 of the brightest minds in healthcare and computing to rally around a great cause in April. We invite you to join us!

NCHICA is a nonprofit consortium of over 300 organizations representing the many sectors of the healthcare industry. Our mission is to assist NCHICA members in accelerating the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system through the effective use of information technology, informatics and analytics. NCHICA leads demonstration projects, hosts educational events, fosters collaborative efforts, and supports initiatives that promote the use of standards-based IT in healthcare. More at http://www.nchica.org

Teams will be judged on their proof-of-concept data mashups that prioritize options for caregivers based on patient data, targeted community resources, geographical data and technological innovations (wearables, social platforms, crowdsourcing, etc).

The prize winning pitch will improve the quality of life of caregivers and promote patient care through the use of healthcare data, community resources and emerging coordination frameworks.